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ke1v3y

Member

Registered: 2013-02-06

Posts: 16

Installing Brother MFC-J430W

Hello all,

I'm currently working to install my Brother MFC-J430W printer on my Arch system (Xfce as my DE), but keep encountering problems.

As a starting point, I went to the Wiki and found a printer of the same family as mine.

I followed the instructions with no problems through the "Prerequisites" and downloading the drivers.

Anyways, here's what's going on:
-So far, I've entered the following commands with no problems (current outputs are included for verification)

[ke1v3y@localhost ~]$ sudo pacman -S tcsh
warning: tcsh-6.18.01-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): tcsh-6.18.01-1

Total Installed Size:   1.16 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.00 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

[ke1v3y@localhost ~]$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/tcsh /bin/csh
ln: failed to create symbolic link ‘/bin/csh’: File exists

[ke1v3y@localhost ~]$ sudo usermod -aG lp ke1v3y

So it looks like all is well so far.

The drivers for my printer are named the following:
-mfcj430wcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
-mfcj430wlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm

This is about where things go sour

[ke1v3y@localhost builds]$ rpmextract.sh mfcj430wlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/ImagingArea: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/brmfcj430wfunc: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/brmfcj430wrc: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AA.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AB.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AC.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AD.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AE.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AF.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AG.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AH.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AI.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AK.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AL.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/lut/BRPRI11AM.BCM: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/paperinfij2: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/inf/setupPrintcapij: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/lpd/brmfcj430wfilter: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/lpd/filtermfcj430w: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/lpd/psconvertij2: Can't unlink already-existing object
./usr/bin/brprintconf_mfcj430w: Can't unlink already-existing object
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

I get a similar error for the other driver:

[ke1v3y@localhost builds]$ rpmextract.sh mfcj430wcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/cupswrapper/brcupsconfpt1: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/cupswrapper/brother_mfcj430w_printer_en.ppd: Can't unlink already-existing object
./opt/brother/Printers/mfcj430w/cupswrapper/cupswrappermfcj430w: Can't unlink already-existing object
bsdtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Any ideas what's going on?

David Batson

Member

Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Installing Brother MFC-J430W

Here is how I got my Brother Printer going in Arch XFCE.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=109570
[See posts #13, #21, & #23]

ke1v3y

Member

Registered: 2013-02-06

Posts: 16

Re: Installing Brother MFC-J430W

David,

I read through the other thread you linked to. The problem I'm running into in following the instructions is modifying the instructions therein to my specific model. Because I'm using a completely different family of printer, several of the links are completely different.

I tried working from the script in post #9

[root@localhost ke1v3y]# bsdtar -xf mfcj430wlpr-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm && bsdtar -xf mfcj430wcupswrapper-3.0.0-1.i386.rpm
[root@localhost ke1v3y]# cd usr/local/Brother/Printer
bash: cd: usr/local/Brother/Printer: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ke1v3y]# perl -pi -e 's/printcap.local/printcap/g' setupPrintcap2
Can't open setupPrintcap2: No such file or directory.
[root@localhost ke1v3y]# 

It seems that my primary issue is that that usr/local/Brother/ doesn't exist (let alone usr/local/Brother/Printer/MFCJ430W).

Am I missing some step?

EDIT: Added details to post.

Last edited by ke1v3y (2013-02-24 20:47:29)